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7.7.4 Application Integration in Optical Storage
Because the storage capacity of optical storage devices is likely to continue to
signifi cantly lag behind hard disk drives, it is likely that integrating entire applications
on optical drives will not make much sense, especially since the trend seems to be
toward consumer devices that are not just optical players, but also include other
storage that can record content on hard disk drives as well as on writable optical
disks. For such products, electronic integration might allow putting the optical drive
electronics on the host ...